News
The WorldFAIR Project – The journey so far and next steps: A special double session at RDA P22, on 22/23 May 2024
The WorldFAIR Project - The journey so far and next steps: A special double session co-located with the RDA Virtual Plenary 22. 22 May 2024, 12:00 – 14:00 UTC, 23 May 2024, 12:00 – 14:00 UTC. Register here (free):...
Read now – April 2024: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Are Researchers Citing Their Data? A Case Study from The U.S. Geological Survey Author: Grace C. Donovan, Madison L. Langseth URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2024-024 Title: Detailed Implementation of a Reproducible Machine Learning-Enabled Workflow...
Open Science and ‘being scientific’: Mercè Crosas at the OECD Multi-Stakeholder Event, 23 April
At the OECD STI Multi-Stakeholder event ‘Shared challenges, transformative actions’, on 23 April, CODATA President, Mercè Crosas, was the first speaker on a panel with the theme ‘Making Open Science a reality for the benefit of society’. Mercè started by arguing that...
The WorldFAIR Webinar Series: Guidelines and Recommendations from the Case Studies on Chemistry and Nanomaterials
April 22 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (UTC) Register here Speakers: Evan Bolton: Protocol Services: Standardized programmatic access to chemical information Stuart Chalk: Training Cookbook: Digital recipes for managing chemical data Iseult Lynch: The Case Study on...
Call for Papers: ICTD 2024 conference in partnership with AOSP EA Node
The 13th International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD 2024), to be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya from December 9-11, 2024, invites you to submit research papers (http://www.ictd.org). About: ICTD 2024 provides an...
WorldFAIR Webinar: Reusing Plant-Pollinator Datasets – a Global Perspective with Guidelines and Recommendations inspired by Pilot Studies from Africa, the Americas and Europe
Registration is open for this WorldFAIR webinar: "Reusing Plant-Pollinator Datasets: a Global Perspective with Guidelines and Recommendations inspired by Pilot Studies from Africa, the Americas and Europe”, taking place on Thursday 18 April at 14:00-15:00 UTC More...
CODATA Data Ethics Working Group Policy Briefs Available for Comment and Feedback
The CODATA Working Group on Data Ethics (now a Task Group), has produced three policy briefings on important topics in relation to data ethics. At least two more are in the pipeline. The policy briefings respond to the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. They...
Read now – Disaster Risk Reduction and Open Data Newsletter: April 2024 Edition
Dangerous humid heat in southern West Africa about 4°C hotter due to climate change The southern coastal zone of Western Africa – also called the Guinea zone – experienced abnormal early season heat in February 2024. A combination of high temperatures and relatively...
March 2024: Publications in the Data Science Journal
Title: Insights on Sustainability of Earth Science Data Infrastructure Projects Author: Arika Virapongse, James Gallagher, Basil Tikoff URL: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2024-014 Title:An Unsupervised Learning Approach to Evaluate Questionnaire Data—What One Can Learn...
NEW WorldFAIR Deliverables for Agricultural Biodiversity, Chemistry, Geochemistry, Nanomaterials, and Social Studies
WorldFAIR — the flagship project of the CODATA Decadal Programme, “Making Data Work for Cross-Domain Grand Challenges" — has had a busy start to 2024. In the first three months of the year, we have published eight new reports: for agricultural biodiversity, chemistry,...